Updated Norwegian electronic navigational chart (ENC) data can now be downloaded and used in the open-source chart plotter and navigation software, OpenCPN. The Norwegian Mapping Authority Hydrographic Service's electronic navigational...

Ahead of the IHO’s compliance deadline of 31 August 2017, the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) urged owners and operators to ensure their ECDIS systems are using S-52 Presentation Library...

Teledyne CARIS has released Bathy DataBASE (BDB) 4.4. This new version addresses the areas of feature generalisation and automation of product generation for chart compilation, as well as the increasing...

TCarta Marine has made dynamic environments easier to monitor and manage with the introduction of its multi-scale Shoreline products. Offered in GIS-ready vector format, the Shoreline datasets are derived from...

One feature of SonarWiz 7 is the Seabed Characterisation tool. It incorporates bathymetric slope, roughness, TPI and any spatially distributed variable that can aid the characterisation algorithm to generate classes...

To fulfill its mission to “continually improve the Port of Rotterdam and to make it the safest, most efficient and most sustainable port in the world“, Rijkswaterstaat, part of the...

The International Board on Standards and Competence for Hydrographic Surveyors and Nautical Cartographers (IBSC) recognised and approved Coast Survey’s certification programme in cartography (CAT-B) at its 40th meeting in Wellington,...

EvoLogics GmbH is showcasing the company’s recent developments at the Ocean Business 2017 exhibition in Southampton, UK, including new products, developer solutions and successful R&D efforts. The latest and biggest...

With HIPS and SIPS and the Bathy DataBASE (BDB) suites of products being closely aligned, the BDB 4.3 release follows hot on the heels of HIPS and SIPS 10.2. These...

Seaports, waterways and climate are inextricably linked. Weather anomalies change bottom contours and destroy aids to navigation, compromising safety. In the past decade, maritime applications, maturing marine technologies and crowdsourcing...